Overview of defining and invoking IMS Connect

The steps below provide a high-level overview of defining and invoking IMS™ connect.

1. Authorize SDFSRESL to the Authorized Program Facility (APF) by online command or by running a JCL job.
2. Ensure that the z/OS® Program Properties Table (PPT) is updated to allow IMS Connect to run in authorized supervisor state and in key 7. The specification in the z/OS PPT must match the program specification in the EXEC statement of the IMS Connect startup JCL. You can specify either BPEINI00 or HWSHWS00.
3. Create an IMS Connect configuration member, and define the IMS Connect configuration statements that IMS Connect uses during initialization.
4. Create the BPE configuration member for IMS Connect.
5. Create the HWSUINIT initialization exit routine, which is not shipped as a load module.
6. If you are connecting to IMS TM, create the user message exit routines that you need, such as HWSSMPL0, HWSSMPL1, or HWSJAVA0. These user message exit routines are also not shipped as load modules.
7. Define IMS Connect security and, optionally, OTMA client security.
8. Optionally, enable the IMS Connect XML message conversion support.